Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics
601 25th Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55454
Phone: (651) 690-7895
FAX: (651) 690-7774
E-mail: MNETHX@stolaf.edu
Contact: Karen G. Gervais, PhD., Director
Biomedical Field
Health care ethics
Business
An academic, clinical and policy consortium that promotes ethically informed healthcare decisionmaking. The consortium involves
- College St. Catherine
- Fairview Health System
- HealthEast Care System
- Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
Programs
Partner services
- cross-cultural health care ethics
- improving relationships between western health care
- professionals and Hmong families
- managed care
- organizational ethics
- coverage for unproved interventions
- withdrawal of life sustaining treatment
- advance care planning
- rationing scarce life-saving resources
- definitions of death and persistent vegetative state
- increasing the supply of organs and tissues for transplant
- umbilical cord blood banking
- stem cell donation
- placebo controlled studies of surgical interventions
Projects
- diverse faith and cultural perspectives
- health care reform
- end of life decisionmaking
- emerging technologies
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